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body moved forward and crossed the South Anna at Ground Squirrel Bridge.
Early on Tuesday, March 1st, the column was again in motion, and by 10 o'clock faced the northern lines of Richmond, on the Brook pike, five miles from the city.
Its arrival was wholly unexpected; still a telegraphic dispatch that Union cavalry were raiding south of the Rapidan having reached Richmond the day before, General Elzey had that morning, as a precaution, sent out troops to the west of the city under General G. W. C. Lee, and to the north under Colonel Stevens, those sent to the Brook road consisting of five hundred men and six guns.
Kilpatrick's advance quickly drove back the pickets of this last force and their supports, and thus found itself lose up to the inner lines of the Richmond defenses.
Some skirmishing with artillery firing went, n for several hours, Kilpatriek mean-while awaiting signs of the approach of Dahlgren.
The latter officer, on separating from the main body below Spotsylvania

troops were driven back, with heavy loss, to their intrenchments on the Brock road.
Longstreet's wounding, and the necessary delay in the change of commanders,
R. H. Anderson was taken from Hill's corps to command Longstreet's, and Mahone assumed command of Anderson's division.--editors. caused loss of time in attacking them in this position.
An attack made in the afternoon failed, after some partial successes, to gain possession of the Federal breastworks.
The rumor which
Major-General G. W. C. Lee, C. S. A. From a photograph.
General Grant mentions in his Memoirs, and to which he seems to have given credence, that Lee's men were in confusion after this attack, and that his efforts failed to restore order, was without foundation in fact.
On the same afternoon, of the 6th, a successful flank assault was made by Gordon, with three brigades of Ewell's corps, the results of which were not so great as hoped for, because night put a stop to his further successful rolling up o

and dispersed.
I had no artillery, all being with the train.
My line ran across a little ravine which leads nearly at right angles toward Sailor's Creek. General G. W. C. Lee was on the left with the Naval Battalion, under Commodore [John R.] Tucker, behind his right.
Kershaw's division was on the right.
All of Lee's and part ed, I surrendered myself and staff to a cavalry officer who came in by the same road General Anderson had gone out on. At my request he sent a messenger to General G. W. C. Lee, who was nearest, with a note from me telling him he was surrounded, General Anderson's attack had failed, I had surrendered, and lie had better do so, toold,.covered with dead and dying, the fire of artillery and musketry ceased, and General Ewell, together with eleven of his general officers [including Kershaw, G. W. C. Lee, Barton, Du Bose, Hunton, and Corse], and about all his gallant army that survived, were prisoners.
Commodore Tucker and his Marine Brigade, numbering about 2

soldiers were at hand, and, after the arrest of a few ringleaders and the more riotous of their followers, a fair degree of order was restored.
But Richmond saw few sleeping eyes during the pandemonium of that night.
The division of Major-General G. W. C. Lee, of Ewell's corps, at that time rested in the trenches eight miles below Richmond, with its right on the James River, covering Chaffin's Bluff.
I was at the time its assistant adjutant-general, and was in the city on some detached dutyf the archives, etc., but partly, no doubt, from desertions.
When morning dawned fewer than 200 men remained, under command of Captain Edward Mayo.
Shortly before day General Ewell rode in person to my headquarters and informed me that General G. W. C. Lee was then crossing the pontoon at Drewry's; that he would destroy it and press on to join the main army; that all the bridges over the river had been destroyed, except Mayo's, between Richmond and Manchester, and that the wagon bridge over

's division,
During the retreat Kershaw's and G. W. C. Lee's divisions, with other troops from the defenses (Shoemaker's),----; Va. Battery (Thomson's),
G. W. C. Lee's division, Maj.-Gen. G. W. Custis Lee.
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[Composed of Barton's and Crutchfield's brigades, with Tucker's naval battalion attached.]
The following battalions of artillery, borne on Lee's return for January 31st, 1865, are not enumerated in the parole list of April 9tre not embraced in the foregoing list.
The loss of Lee's army in killed and wounded is not known.
The numbe231.
In his official report of April 12th, 1865, General Lee says: On the morning of the 9th, according to the ( Personal memoirs, Vol.
II., p. 500) remarks: When Lee finally surrendered. . . . there were only 28,356 offo the statement sometimes made, North and South, that Lee surrendered a smaller number of men than what the offe of surrender 19,132 Confederates, to say nothing of Lee's other losses, killed, wounded, and missing, during